Ahmedabad to get a SMART police station where the police would be fit, slim and smart

Ahmedabad wants to set a precedent by creating a SMART police station where the police would be fit, slim and smart. The general trend of tired, overweight policemen and lack of interest in their jobs would soon be a thing of the past. The SMART police station would ensure that its police personnel get nutritious food and at the right time through a canteen at a police station.
This is because unhealthy food or lack of food as a result of irregular working hours put cops at significantly higher health risk than the general population. Hence, Ahmedabad City Police is geared up to make their cops healthy and fit.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 10 February 2017.

The plan is to provide healthy food to the staff - it will include meals, seasonal fruits and juices to meet the nutritional requirements of the cops. Visitors who have to wait at the station for long hours will be provided juice. Cops who have to work for 12 to 13 hours are unable to bring home cooked food, hence the canteen operated by a reputed caterer who will give the meals at subsidised rates.
Moreover, to reduce stress at work, there will be 8-hour duty for cops instead of 12 hours.


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Britain has taken a positive step to improve the health of its people - it is encouraging middle-aged Britons to leave the sofa and cut down on fatty foods, as a part of the biggest health drive by the Government. The initiative is costing the taxpayer almost £3.5m and it urges people to eat better, exercise more so that they can get rid of the unwanted pounds.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 7 March 2016.

A 51-year-old has already made a number of lifestyle changes by starting to go to the gym to lose weight. She wants to keep fit and does not want a gradual deterioration in her health and fitness levels and also go overweight. Available evidence tends to suggest that living healthily in midlife can double the chances of being healthy beyond the age of 70.
Incidentally, the NHS spends more than £11bn each year to treat illnesses resulting from smoking, poor diets and inactivity. In order to introduce the changes, TV and online adverts are part of the latest initiative, called One You. The problem is that many adults know what they should be doing, but are busy looking after their children, their parents, and are busy at work. To them, online campaigns provides a number of tools to make better choices.
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Obesity is a global problem and needs to be viewed as an epidemic

#obesity #health #overweight #healthyfood #unhealthyfood Obesity is a global problem and needs to be viewed as an epidemic. Efforts to tackle it at the international level is extremely slow and no country has, yet, been able to reverse the trend as revealed in a recent major study and reported in news.sky.com dated 19 February 2015.
The six-part series has been published in The Lancet and it examines how different countries across the world are dealing with an increasing obesity epidemic. The focus is on a whole range of issues beginning from not only the quality of diet but also on how to influence and encourage children to eat healthier food.
The study has found that while consumption of healthy foods has improved, it has been overtaken by people going in for more unhealthy foods – a paradox. As a result, some of the wealthiest regions in the world are still stuck with the lowest quality diets.
As per estimates, 600 million people worldwide are obese, with 2.1 billion now overweight. This aspect of being overweight should be given necessary importance because is believed to be the reason for death of 2.8 million people every year.
Reports indicate that in some countries like the UK, childhood obesity numbers have levelled off, but even today, no country can claim to have reversed the obesity epidemic. Therefore, experts want a worldwide action plan that would include restrictions on how food meant for children is marketed. Moreover, they would also like to have suitable regulation of food nutritional quality and availability in schools, better labelling with nutritional values and taxes on drinks that are high in sugar.
The intentions are to increase awareness and penalize those who do not toe the line.

Overweight people are always the butt of jokes and ridicule

#overweight #OliverHardy #obesity It is very true that overweight people are invariably the butt of jokes and ridicule – the best example was that of comedian of the 1950s Oliver Hardy of the Laurel-Hardy fame. The trend has not changed a bit and overweight people face so much ridicule and abuse that it makes it all the hard for them to slim down.
A study conducted by Professor James Stubbs, the chair of Behaviour Change and Weight Management at the University of Derby, has revealed that four in ten overweight persons complain of having suffered some sort of personal insult or abuse at least once a week – the survey was conducted on a group of over 2,500 who struggled to lose weight. The problems they encountered ranged from rude shop assistants in fashion chains laughing at the idea of people asking for larger sizes to supermarket staff commenting on what people have in their trolley.
It has been observed that overweight people are mocked or filmed in the street, while girls enjoying a night out have been targeted by groups of young men. Moreover, their opportunities to get a job or promotion – and so improve their lives – have invariably been blocked by discrimination because of weight problems.
Professor James Stubbs is Research Specialist at Slimming World and the survey covered a total of 2,573 persons to understand how people treated them before they lost weight.
It seems when at their heaviest, they suffered humiliations such as young people winding their car window down to shout abuse, fellow passengers refusing to share a seat on public transport, groups of men in nightclubs feigning romantic interest and teenagers taking pictures or videos on their smartphone.
When they went to purchase anything, they faced rude comments on their food choices from supermarket staff, laughter from shop assistants when they asked for clothes in a bigger size, and felt humiliated when the bar tenders served slimmer customers first even if they stood behind in the queue.
Such personal criticism does not motivate people to lose weight but, some 47per cent on the receiving end felt ashamed, 41per cent felt depressed and 30 per cent useless.